Monthly Archives: April 2015

ETF Strategist – International REITs Score

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INTERNATIONAL REITs SCORE Not all REIT investment instruments are the same! While US-based ETFs such as VNQ (Vanguard REIT ETF©) and RWR (SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF©) continued to underperform since our ETF Strategist Tool captured significant deterioration in this particular segment that started between Apr 8 – 10, 2015, we also noticed that the“Ex-US” […]

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QAS Alert – Crude Oil Has Bottomed

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Crude Oil Has Bottomed •In our February 9 Alert we highlighted early bottoming action in Crude Oil. •Improvement has continued to follow the pattern of other important lows and it now appears that an important low is in place. •The profile is similar to other important lows: early 2009, early 2002, and early 1999. •Our […]

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ETF Strategist – REITs Changing Bias

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  Conceptually, “a bias”, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a tendency or trend. However, when defining primary and secondary events, we would use another definition that describes “bias” as “the impulse” that’s causing the tendency and trend. In the “QAS Risk Zones Methodology” we apply the “bias” concept to define the most sensitive initial impulses […]

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